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Common iptables rules for Fedora 11

Article ID: 297

Last updated on June 23, 2011

Authored by: Rackspace Support

Fedora 11 ships with a default iptables ruleset installed that will reject all incoming traffic. Before you can use some services you must add rules to iptables so the services will work. Below is a list of common rules that users would use.

These examples assume you are making the firewall changes as a normal user with 'sudo' privileges